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Learning and Teaching in the Primary Classroom
SAGE Publications 2007; US$ 42.00Providing a framework for understanding the individual needs of pupils, this book describes how you can tailor your teaching methods to maximise learning. You will learn how to take account of your pupils' knowledge, skills and attitudes when selecting and applying principles of instruction, in order to make learning in your classroom as successful... more...
Group Work in the Primary Classroom
Taylor and Francis 1992; US$ 46.95Drawing on the work of Vygotsky, the authors look at the social and emotional advantages children can gain from working together. They use case studies derived from the ORACLE II group work project at Leicester, and also take into account the advances made in collaborative group work in other countries. The result is a set of guidelines from which... more...
Transfer from the Primary Classroom
RoutledgeFalmer 2001; US$ 56.95This book focuses on the issue of transfer from the primary to the secondary school, using data from the ORACLE study, (Observation and Classroom Learning and Evaluation). more...
Teachers Under Pressure
SAGE Publications 2008; US$ 50.00This groundbreaking book is the first to provide detailed descriptions of life in school following the government's attempt to reform working conditions and to show that the reform is only partially successful. It raises profound issues about the future of the teaching profession - a controversial and essential read for all teachers. more...
Inside the Primary Classroom: 20 Years On
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 61.95In recent years primary education has been the subject of continuing debate with questions of standards and their apparent decline being raised with alarming regularity. Central in informing these debates has been the ORACLE study of groupwork in primary classrooms. Published during the 1980s, the study described in detail the daily life of the primary... more...
Reinventing Schools, Reforming Teaching
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 41.95What lessons can we learn from the relationship between policy-makers and schools over the life of the ?New? Labour and its predecessor Conservative government? What happened to ?Education, Education, Education? as it travelled from political vision to classroom practice? What are the lasting legacies of 13 years of a reforming Labour government?... more...
Motivating Your Secondary Class
SAGE Publications 2009; US$ 49.00Maurice Galton and his team have collected examples from various schools of what works in re-energising demotivated pupils. more...
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